Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Platform Engineering is the practice of designing, building and operating platforms for application engineering teams to leverage. The main goal of the central platform engineering team is to unlock the potential of the application teams, so they spend more time focusing on business functionality, increasing velocity, and reducing time to market. Moreover, the enterprise can better scale across its applications with similar platforms and shared microservices, making it easier to staff engineer assignments, as well as access enterprise information.

Because of its holistic charter, the Platform Engineering team requires both infrastructure and development skillsets, people who can architect and design services, and people who can build and run them. Because services are provided for their full lifecycle – and must continuously improve to meet new requirements and priorities the team must manage its services like a product portfolio, support the DevOps transformation of the company, drive the application engineering community and to share and incorporate new concepts and technologies.

This Role will be a Software Engineer with focus on the SAP ERP / S4HANA Development. As a part of the team, the software engineer will be working in different projects around business processes and supporting in the operations of the platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct feasibility studies and provide technical assessments for automation opportunities
• Collaborate directly with stakeholders to capture business requirements and translate them into technical approaches and designs that can be implemented
• Provide guidance in process re-design
• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services

• Ensure best practices and design principles are implemented
• Ensure that business operations remain smooth and undisrupted
• Support deployments or troubleshoot production issues outside of work hours and participate in an on-call rotation as-needed
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies and business processes

Key Relationships:

• SAP Solution Architects & Functional consultants
• Application Operations team
• SAP Release Management
• SAP Basis
• Integration

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• More than 5- 8 years of IT experience
• More than 5 years as SAP Developer with focus on ABAP, OO, ABAP on HANA, SAP Integration, FIORI
• SAP Certification is a plus

Skills and Abilities:

• Problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Meticulous to details
• Quick Learner
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborator and sense of ownership

Technical profile:

• Proven technical track record in ABAP (Classical, OO, WD) development
• In depth knowledge of SAP’s ABAP/4 programming language (OO), IDOC/ALE, REST/SOAP APIs, Configuration of SOAMANAGER, AIF
• SAP FIORI with oData service
• Functional exposure to SAP solutions (any of the following: S4, SAP-AFS (SD/MM/FI), IS-Retail, CRM, HR, SCM, Portal, XI)
• Experience with AGILE methodologies and Change Management Methodologies.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem resolution skills required.